Last month was a quiet month on the Free Grid, aside from a brief and (so far) unexplained glitch in transportation. Inhabitants were recovering from the storm, exploring changes to the Grid's architecture, and missing those whom the storm removed from the Grid. (As it was a difficult month for a lot of us, much of this ended up happening offscreen.)

This month starts out just as quiet, though the Thing That Will Happen in a couple of days is likely to turn heads. Feel free plot non-event-related activities and/or to wait for Thursday's event post to decide what your characters might do.

Don't forget to use the Jobfair/Tasksets and Locations posts for ideas on what your character can do for others and they for you.

Plot away!

Last month, the Free Grid’s shape and demographics were drastically changed by a severe storm. Some lost their homes, and some lost friends, but the storm also imported a patch of clean Sea (with some unexpected passengers) and put an end to death on the Grid. (Has... anybody actually tested this yet? Because this is a thing.)

This month, transportation across the Grid is stalling as a compatibility error makes most vehicles nonfunctional. Is your vehicle one of them? Are you frantically trying to get somewhere, or is this forcing you to slow down and smell the virtual roses for once? Are you interested in investigating the cause of the error, possibly via ancient Archive records or by exploring self-maintaining system utility facilities that have gone unvisited since before the Reintegration? Do you desperately need to get somewhere or else DISASTER? Are you part of a relief or rescue mission, or do you need one? Could you not care less about transportation because there are more important things going on in your life? Did you just rezz in and is this the worst system ever of all time?

Don't forget to use the Jobfair/Tasksets and Locations posts for ideas on what your character can do for others and they for you during this event.

Now get in here and plot! \o/

Now that we know who’s around, what the event is, and what the game looks like for now, everybody get in here and plot!

Grid_lined plot-with-me posts will happen monthly from now on, and will replace the monthly plotplurk memes that folks have been using (since it’s difficult to find them again or keep track of so many different plurks). You can plot specifically for the storm event in that post or here, but this post is for February plots in general.

Since some people were wondering, and since some of this happened in the waaay old comm, I'm giving an update for what this Tron here has been trying to do in the system.

He started out by taking over the Arena management, and tried to bring the Games back into the way Flynn had originally designed them... as they're seen in the Betrayal comic. Hence, no more derezzing to finish matches, and if it looks like a match is GOING to end that way, he'll put a quick stop to it. (I notice that some people have written matches ending with derezzing... this is not happening in these Games as they are now. Tron would shut them down.)

With managing the Arena, Tron found himself taking on more and more admin responsibilities of the Grid as a whole, as well as organizing the Security forces. Poor program is taking on far too much, and it's starting to show... he was never written as an admin, and he's barely able to hang on.

Future plot idea: He sees the Portal as the source of the problems with the system, and may attempt to do something... drastic to solve the problem. (Obviously it would not work, as I would not do anything game-changing, but it's just a thought.) I know other people have various plots going on right now, so this is on hold at the moment, but. Just a thought for later. >:D